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Article: Angry opposition youths oppose Kenya compromise.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- February 19, 2008
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Byline: Rob Crilly Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Kisumu, Kenya -- The pile of stones blocking the road here in this western Kenyan city is part tribute to a fallen comrade and part challenge to Kenya's politicians as they talk peace.
"We cannot remove the stones until we know that [opposition leader Raila Odinga] is the president," says Eliazar Otieno Oluga, one of the unemployed youths who hang out in a corrugated iron shed at the edge of a slum.
This area is the heartland of support for Mr. Odinga, who narrowly lost the disputed Dec. 27 presidential election that most observers say was deeply flawed.
Odinga has made ...